Sep 19, 2022
Often in rehearsal Karajan didn’t conduct. The art was to make the orchestra listen to itself. Critics sniped but, for musicians, what he did bordered on the miraculous.
- Conductor Mariss Jansons on Herbert von Karajan
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Often in rehearsal Karajan didn’t conduct. The art was to make the orchestra listen to itself. Critics sniped but, for musicians, what he did bordered on the miraculous.
- Conductor Mariss Jansons on Herbert von Karajan
Karikatur einer Künstlermähne? Christoph Brech fixiert die Handbewegungen von Mariss Jansons. Foto: Christoph Brech
Orchestra conductors are something else, man.
There are wizards casting spells...
(Claudio Abbado, Mariss Jansons, Myung-whun Chung and Zubin Mehta)
...some ascend to another mental plane...
(Valery Gergieve, Riccardo Chailly)
...and some go total Super Saiyajin!
(Shiyeon Sung, Simone Rattle, Leonard Bernstein, Christian Velasquez)
Arvīds and Mariss Jansons studying a score, 1972. Arvīds Jansons was then the assistant conductor of the Leningrad Philarmonic (appointed by Yevgeny Mravinsky).
The outstanding conductor and Shostakovich interpreter Mariss Jansons has died at the age of 77 in St. Petersburg, according to a family friend. The cause of death was acute heart failure. He was born in Latvia on 14 January 1943.
Mariss Jansons was a graduate of the Leningrad State Conservatory, a student of Yevgeny Mravinsky. In 2005 he received a Grammy Award for his interpretation of Shostakovich's 13th Symphony.
Source: DSCH Journal Facebook page
Dear Followers, I think that everyone is suprised how the time flies. Years after years and we just can’t stop this circle. 2017 was the latest part or edition of our life-journal, and I hope that everyone enjoyed the precious moments.
For the last three days of this year, I prepared a selection of some quality music by the famous Strauss family. The title of this short celebration/event is 201X - I added the X, because I think that it doesn’t matter what year is coming...It’s important to live, learn and love.
Today on Musica in Extenso:
Johann Strauss II
Pizzicato-Polka
The New Celebrations from Vienna, 2012
Conductor: Mariss Jansons
Enjoy! - Editor-in-Chief
Symphony No. 2 in D Major, op. 43 by Jean Sibelius as performed by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conducted by Mariss Jansons
skam song of the day
morgenstemning - oslo filarmoniske orkester, mariss jansons 2x8, noora’s fragmented memories of niko’s party, end credits